Baranenko Vitaly Alekseevich was born in 1965 in the picturesque village at Poltavshchina near to thousand-years old city of Lubny. In 1991 he had excellent finished the Kharkov art school . His teachers: P.A.Shigimaga- the honoured worker of arts, Korobov G.S., Konovalov G. N. At the same year he had arrived to Kharkov in Art-industrial institute, on painting faculty. He improved his skill under the direction of well-known artists-painters B.A.Kolesnika, A.M.Konstantinopolskogo, A.V.Martyntsa, E.F.Zherdzitskogo. In 1997 he is awarded an Honors Certificate by his particular finished picturesque branch. Being trained at institute the artist was the participant of many exhibitions. His creativity is enriched by new receptions, themes, creative finds. The painters skill gets stronger and gets new force. Gradually the artist leaves from former dryness, finds bright figurative means more richly and more colorfully to represent the validity. Improving drawing and a composition, it reaches much expressiveness, gives interesting vital generalizations.